During the apartheid-linked isolation years of South Africa, the country’s cricket authorities ensured that cricket carried on in the troubled land by enticing a number of ‘rebel’ teams to visit their shores. The best and the most attractive among them was perhaps the star-studded West Indian side that visited twice during the early 1980s. Garfield Robinson looks back at those controversial tours..
Read MoreThe final Rebel Test
February 8, 1990. In the midst of combustible political situation, the very last rebel ‘Test’ got underway in Johannesburg between South Africa and Mike Gatting’s England XI. Arunabha Sengupta looks at how the game was played amidst protests, demonstrations, massive country-wide changes and the release of Nelson Mandela.
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